A study found female homicide rates fell 17 percent after the site created an “erotic services” section. So why would Congress add to the risks?

At this point, I am surprised the government isn’t offering cash rewards to snitch on sex workers. This moral witch hunt harm members of our community. FOSTA is a government-sponsored hate crime against sex workers.

Not only did they sneak the cloud bill into the budget, look at this. The government is willing to pay cash rewards to those who snitch on traffickers which means all undocumented workers are now at risk that people will turn them in to get a cash reward.

H.R. 1625 amends the State Department Basic Authorities Act of 1956 to authorize the State Department and law enforcement agencies to target international human traffickers by offering financial rewards for their arrest or conviction. The Department currently has a rewards program that uses appropriated funds to offer cash awards to deter transnational organized crime.

Coyote RI and SWOP USA support line have been blowing up all week. Our community has been shaken to the core. Even sex workers will legal jobs like porn performer and webcam models are under attack, as google drive is dealing all their content. We expect all US WordPress accounts to be shut down. Swop Behind bars just removed their servers to Iceland and Coyote will be doing the same next week. Today SWOP Sacramento announced that they were shutting down all their outreach services to protect their volunteers from liability.

With the closing of all the adult platform, not only will many sex workers not be able to advertise, they can no longer use all the tools to stay safe.

We are scrambling to learn, so we can share information and track and document the collateral damage in the wake of FOSTA.

NEXT STEPS

Coyote RI and Swop Behind Bars are trying to organize a community response to the passing of Fosta (Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act)., locally and nationwide. We will be rolling out an online toolkit soon. We need to organize and gain local and national support from sex workers and clients and 3rd party staff, migrate workers, social justice movements, unions, LGBT, political parties, universities and women’s reproductive health rights groups,

On June 2stInternational Whores’ Day also know as International Sex Workers Day, we will hold rallies all over the US and we will show the world that our communities will protect sex workers just like we protected the undocumented, LGBT, POC, and the poor.

WE WILL RESIST! #SexWorkerRightsAreHumanRights

Fosta #FuckYourRespectabilityPolitics

because

#SexWorkersLivesMatter

If you have been affected by Fosta and are scrambling for resources and safety, please call SWOP USA support line at 877-776-2004 or contact Coyote RI at 401-525-8757